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Gov. Palin hiding husband’s correspondence related to trooper union
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Nick Juliano
Raw Story
September 8, 2008
E-mails between Todd Palin, Gov’s aides among hundreds kept secret
Dozens of e-mails exchanged among several government employees and Todd Palin, the husband of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin who has no formal role in her administration, are not being turned over in response to an open records request in the state.
The e-mails are being kept secret ostensibly because they deal with policy deliberations between the governor and her staff, the contents of which do not have to be disclosed to the public. However, Todd Palin’s presence in the e-mail chains seems to belie concerns that their contents need to remain strictly in the domain of the state government.
Another possible reason for the withholding is the political damage that could accompany disclosure of the e-mails. According to subject lines of the e-mails, they seem to deal with a public sector union representing Alaska state troopers that the Palins have been feuding with for years as well as one of the governor’s main political opponents.
Mother Jones’ David Corn outlined the backstory behind the missing e-mails Monday.
In June, Andrée McLeod, a self-described independent government watchdog in Alaska, sent an opens record act request to the office of Governor Sarah Palin. She requested copies of all the emails that had been sent and received by Ivy Frye and Frank Bailey, two top aides to Palin, from February through April of this year. McLeod, a 53-year-old registered Republican who has held various jobs in state government, suspected that Frye and Bailey had engaged in political activity during official business hours in that period by participating in a Palin-backed effort to oust the state chairman of the Alaska Republican party, Randy Ruedrich. (Bailey has been in the national news of late for refusing to cooperate with investigators probing whether Palin fired Alaska’s public safety commission because he did not dismiss a state trooper who had gone through an ugly divorce with Palin’s sister.)
In response to her request, McLeod received four large boxes of emails. This batch of documents did not contain any proof that Frye and Bailey had worked on government time to boot out Ruedrich. But there was other information she found troubling. Several of the emails suggested to her that Palin’s office had used its influence to reward a Fairbanks surveyor who was a Palin fundraiser with a state job. In early August, McLeod filed a complaint with the state attorney general against Palin, Bailey, and other Palin aides, claiming they had violated ethics and hiring laws. Palin, now the Republican vice-presidential candidate, told the Alaska Daily News that “there were no favors done for anybody.”
But more intriguing than any email correspondence contained in the four boxes was what was not released: about 1100 emails. Palin’s office provided McLeod with a 78-page list (PDF) cataloging the emails it was withholding. Many of them had been written by Palin or sent to her.
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Of the withheld e-mails, at least four dozen include Todd Palin, and many of those refer either to the Public Service Employees Association, a union representing law enforcement officers in Alaska. Others including Todd Palin reference Andrew Halco, a former state lawmaker who ran as an independent against Sarah Palin in 2006. Since losing that race, he’s become a blogger who frequently criticizes Palin’s administration.
A string of e-mails sent over several days in late March and early April refer to “PSEA Ads” and a “PR Campaign,” although nothing but the subject line in the e-mails has been released on the grounds that they deal with “deliberative process” and executive privilege.
It’s unclear precisely what the ads or PR campaigns were, but municipal elections were held in Anchorage on April 1, during the timeframe the e-mails were being exchanged. RAW STORY has left a message with the PSEA’s executive director seeking more information.
The PSEA represents Alaska State Troopers, and Gov. Palin is alleged to have fired the state’s Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan after he refused to have her former brother-in-law fired from the state police force.
Monegan showed the Washington Post separate e-mails from Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo! e-mail account in which she showed intense interest in the investigation of trooper Mike Wooten, who allegedly threatened Pallin’s family while divorcing her sister.
In one e-mail from July of 2007, Palin criticized the fact that Wooten was “not even reprimanded by his bosses” after allegedly threatening to kill her father, and she implied that the union was protecting him.
“Remember when the death threat was reported, and follow-on threats from Mike that he was going to ‘bring Sarah and her family down’ — instead of any reprimand WE were told by trooper union personnel that we’d be sued if we talked about those threats,” she wrote to Monegan.
Whether the e-mails circulated between Palin’s husband and the governor’s staffers were similarly critical of the union is not known, but activists hope such information may come to light before the election.
McLeod, who filed the initial public records request, said she will appeal the decision to keep the 1,100 e-mails private.
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September 8th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Anyway…..Palin is hot!
She is a M.I.L.F!
September 8th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
hey, wise guy…
Don’t you mean C.I.L.F. (candidate)
If elected, she’d be… P.I.L.F.? V-P.I.L.F?
dude, she reminds me of Elaine from Seinfeld…
September 8th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
well if some pric cop was threating my family while in an ugly divorce with my sister and I was governer i would have his ass hung out to dry, probably killed. Go sarah palin!
September 8th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
HAIRSTYLE HAS GOT TO GO!!!! TOO 60ISH!!….GIVE HERE A FARRAH FAWCETT 70′S HAIRDO!!! NOW WE’RE TALKING!!..AND SOME CONTACTS!!
September 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Unbelievable. The three posters here speak volumes about the American sheeple. People are actually more interested in discussing her looks, who she resembles, and that she has every right to have some one fired for not doing her bidding.
I would like to have something profound to type here, however, I’m so exceedingly disgusted by the lack of concern of these posters about the true ramifications of her selection as VP, that I am truly at a loss for words.
I know people need to lighten up sometimes as it’s good for the soul, but the comments left earlier are lacking any coherence of intelligence reflecting the true nature of our impending future. Again, words can not describe the sinking feeling. I’m glad I have my hope in Jesus instead of in the so called leaders of America.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
HEROES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeDSAcegfU0
September 8th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
And the coverup continues.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Like sand’s through the hourglass… So are the coverups of our lives.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Hey HAM, don’t forget that GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARE ACTIVELY posting on this site JUST TO DISCREDIT AJ AND THE TRUTH MOVEMENT. Also as you yourself knows, anyone who would get to this site usually knows something is wrong with the world and they also are VERY SERIOUS and thoughtful, HOW ELSE CAN ONE SEE THE HOAX THAT THE ILLUMINATI HAVE BEEN PERPETRATING on the world for so long. Please do not confuse Agent Provacatuers and general childish morons for the serious thoughtful humans who exchange valid ideas on this site. Remember ALL the garbage posts ON THE MICHELLE MALKIN STORY, also remember the POSTER ON THIS SITE WHO HAD HIS COMPUTER HACKED BECAUSE HE WAS NAMING NAMES OF THE AGENT PROVOCATUER POSTERS and general morons/sheeple who try to discredit the whole TRUTH MOVEMENT, not just the 911 truth movement but the entire satanic Illuminati awakening movement. I for ONE AM GLAD WHEN I SEE SUCH MORONIC ATTEMPTS ON THIS SITE, IT LETS ME KNOW THAT WE ARE BEING HEARD AND THAT THE MOVEMENT IS DANGEROUS ENOUGH TO THE ILLUMINATI THAT THEY NEED TO HAVE MORONS/SHEEPLE/PROGRAMMED FOOLS/AGENTS on here trying to DISCREDIT BY ASSOCIATION. Just do what I do, ignore the crap and take whatever good advice of information the TRUE THINKING POSTERS supply. I have noticed most posts to be a wealth of information and lead me to other evidence of the satanic banking world order. Like a great man once said, “It’s a piece of shit, walk away” Bill Hicks, I take that as move on to other posts, ACKNOWLEDGING IDIOCY JUST ENCOURAGES THEM. Peace, THANK AJ AND INFOWARS, KEEP UP THE WORK FOR HUMANITY.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
To TruthbeTold,
You are indeed right. I usually do just ignore what sometimes are copious amounts of garbage piled on these comment sections. I guess after reading the story, and then reading those three or four posts that held no meaning whatsoever, it just struck me cold. But you are right, there do seem to be more and more provocateurs or better yet ditch diggers, who want to waste time and drill down on some off the wall discussion to entice others away from the story.
Not to do exactly as I just described, but I am also interested in seeing some proof about this cop. Since there is a possibility that some of the info on that matter may reflect differently on her character, I think it is worth discussing. I do not condone such alleged conduct by that cop as was described in another comment, but I haven’t seen much about that. Maybe I’m reading with my eyes closed, so if anyone actually has article references to post on that matter, please do so in that I might educate myself. Thanks.
September 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I echo Ham and TruthbeTold: Lots of ditch diggers suddenly. I am sure we are somehow paying for them under some black budget…
September 8th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
NICK, NICK, NICK HIS CICUMCISIED COCK, CIRCUCISED JEW BRAIN, HOW MANY GARBAGE DUMPS DID YOU GO THRU TO COME UP WITH THIS JEW SHIT. NO MATTER, ALL YOU SHITS(WHAT SHIT HAS A USEFULL PURPOSE )( JEW DUNG) DUNG HAS A USEFULL PURPOSE) I’M LOST FOR WORDS. FIND ANOTHER GARBAGE DUMP.
September 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Does anybody think that Palin was selecteed because of her good looks ? In the good old USA, and I have to say in Canada also, anything could get by undetected and the will of the people means absolutely nothing. How in God’s name, in the land of so called Democracy, can there only be 2 choices, 1 better then Communisim and both communist. In Canada, it’s the same shit, we got dumb or dumber and both puppets of the NWO, we have the choice between a lying bastard or a wanna be, pick your fucking poison.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
How many cockbiting 88ers are on this goddamn site anyway??? Fuck me these people are beyond pathetic. And speaking of book burning pieces of shit, Palin is a fascist pig that has no business holding any political office in any free country.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
John & Fred Senecal one in the same ips. They’re zionists (in reality or action) crying nazi while spray painting the swastikas. Stop diverting with your off-topic dribble. Zionists of any kind are human dung who’s post reflect the filthy language they use. Love.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
BEAT the internationalists at their own game…….become debt free and learn the secrets of the rich from the very best!
http://www.becomericher.info
September 8th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
I want to do her and scream Ron Paul…Ron Paul the whole time!!!!!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:07 am
22 tomw says, If your such a big player why dont you pay Alex for the advertisment instead of sneaking your bullshit in a blog that has nothing to do with the topic. I’m willing to bet your probably in between jobs so to speak & on Food Stamp’s. Come on you can tell us . I have a knack for smelling bullshit artist which I have no patience for. Shamus
September 9th, 2008 at 1:22 am
“Rest it on the lip junior!!!” Fuck It…It’s On!!!! “All HAIL Thermal Expansion!!!”
September 9th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Nice, another elitist thinking they have the power to have anyone fired is running for office. I also am willing to bet that more lies uncovered about the union.
We all know that many government officials are against trade unions in favor of the almight dollar in Washington. Corporations can organize in Washington but it’s a sin if workers try to organize.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Like Sarah’s husband’s activism, I wish Michelle Obama was so concerned about:
1.) BarkO’s close ties to domestic terrorist William Ayers and his Weather Underground bombings and killings of Americans – the one to whom BarkO owes in part his *political career* and who, to this day, says he “didn’t do enough”; and
2.) BarkO’s close ties to Rezko’s Middle Eastern ‘Ayers sympathizers’ – the one to whom BarkO owes in part his *campaign war-chest* and who, soon enough, will be going to federal prison for his ‘doing his community’.
Where is THAT news? So much for the piety of ‘community organizers’…
To TAKE DOWN a PIG that CONFESSES to TASERING a Ten-Year-Old and DUI in his Patrol Car
GOT OFF EASY, if you ask me – GOOD for the CITIZEN’S RIGHT to OBJECT to a ROGUE COP!
That ‘commissioner’ exemplifies the ELITIST “F-Off, Taxpayer” attitude that is a disservice to US.
If the MSM is a tool of the NWO (and it is) we can REJECT out-of-hand what THEY are most biasedly trying to accomplish by NOT voting for King and Queen Obama – the coronation of which took place in Denver.
Lest, of course, you be ‘Racist’.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
If she is such a heroine for saving her family, why not release the information so that we can all cheer her on. Not releasing the information says Fascist Tyrant to me. So, I guess you can say they did find a Hillary equivalent.
September 9th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
has anyone here investigated the claims that that trig is not her kid bud her grandkid. she showed no signs of being pregnant and her kid bristol was ot of school for five months at the time. very fishy.. and even by the official story she boarded a plane and flew from texas to alaska to deliver after water broke very irresponsible. and she not hot btw just creepy
September 9th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
…anyone with any understanding of who really controls the american government has to wonder why this inexperienced nobody was chosen for running mate…btw…there are many alaskans who have not been impressed with her record in office…for starters check out the deficit accrued during her tenure…
September 10th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Want a real solution? This is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
September 10th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
In New York the Troopers dont make death threats. It’s hard to make death threats when you’re asleep on the side of the Thruway or behind a liquor store.. It’s no wonder these guys are up all night long boozing it up and playing poker. They sleep on their shift.. The other night I drove by one sleeping where an accident occurred not more than 100 yards behind him on the NYS Thruway.. I honked and honked my horn but he was unresponsive.. I called the Troop T barracks and said, he’s either a very sound sleeper or um.. Dead.. Why dont you go gather him up.. LMAO!!! Troopers, the second last stop on the male employment train. Next stop, own a gym.. Last stop, own a bar.. Then it’s couch time and public assistance!!! NY Troopers should be proud!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Leave the hooker and her dead beat hubby alone for crying out loud.. Who cares what she does with the Eskimos? Bottom line is McCain now has a hottie to molest on a daily basis. Anyone who thinks that little collaborator / master of room service at the Hanoi Hilton hasnt gang banged her into oblivion is just a damn fool.. Sarah was brought on board to keep the little dude happy.. Nothing more, nothing less. Seeing as that hag Cindy cant do it..
September 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
IMO Palin was chosen due to her husband’s ties in the oil industry. While I don’t condone the trooper’s horrific actions, it does not give Palin the right to use her influence as a government official to get the man fired. Did the trooper actually do what was reported or did Palin have the information planted as a means of revenge? It shows her vindictive character to fire the safety commissioner when she didn’t get her way and she has a history of trying to destroy people who get in her way. Take, for example, her attempt to fire the librarian just because the librarian refused to remove books Palin wanted.
I personally think Palin and Rice are the cattiest, most vengeful, female dogs in government positions. Wonder how they’ll get along in the White House should McWar-monger win? MEOW HISS HISS!! LOL Probably about as well as Obama’s catty wife would with Rice.
This election is a toilet bowl with only two big turds floating. Which one will you fish out of the political toilet bowl? I say flush em all and pull out the plunger when they clog it up!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Let’s get the facts perfectly clear. People need to understand that John McCain cooperated with his captors. John McCain told them everything they wanted to know every single time he was asked.. That is why he spent his time there watching TV and playing basketball. He is a collaborator with the enemy, plain and simple. How this little shit bag is running for president is beyond the scope of the imagination.. TELL THE TRUTH LITTLE PISS ANT!!
September 10th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Freedom matters
What I say I read on this site long ago and on Drudge.. He collaborated. I cant stand the little muslum boy or Biden.. I cant stand any of them. They all need to be tried and hung. Actually if I did vote I would vote for Ron Paul. As for your personal attacks on me? You couldnt be further from the truth asswipe. I bench press your entire family, I squat your entire family plus one fat Denver cop.. My W2 suffice to say at the very least Triples yours asswipe. So why dont you grow up, get a life, move out of your mom’s basement and trade in the blow up doll for a starter girlfriend down at the used clothing store. That or email me, we can exchange addresses, meet half way and settle this with bare knuckles? Game? Or are you a chicken shit?
September 10th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Freedom Matters = chicken shit
I figured as much.. Lesson learned.. If you cant back up your fucking mouth with your fists, then keep it shut buttwipe.. my email address is nate_fulla_hate@yahoo.com. Im waiting..
September 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Very well, I am sorry..
September 10th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Please stop using the words, Zionist and Neo-Con. Just call them “Criminal Jews” as that is what they are. Why confuse people. Let them know exactly what is behind those words. Jews blow. This is where all American’s problems originate. Watch http://www.911missinglinks.com ,watch it and try to prove the both of us wrong. Hurry though as some asswipe administrator for this site continues to remove posts with this link
But seriously,how was the copper wire invented? Two Jews found the same penny!
September 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Please stop using the words, Zionist and Neo-Con. Just call them “Criminal Jews” as that is what they are. Why confuse people. Let them know exactly what is behind those words. Jews blow. This is where all American’s problems originate. Watch http://www.911missinglinks.com ,watch it and try to prove the both of us wrong. Hurry though as some asswipe administrator for this site continues to remove posts with this link
But seriously,how was the copper wire invented? Two Jews found the same penny!
what tight-assed Wankers.